Iseng-iseng barusan nyasar ke blognya septian gede, dan nemu post tentang lagu “Gereja Bagai Bahtera” trus dia mention tentang judul aslinya “Ein Schiff, das sich Gemeinde nennt” dan ada linknya. Dasar emang jerman freak, ya gue terusin aja ke yutup gitu. Trus ada liriknya, dan gue tertarik di bagian ini (reff):

Bleibe bei uns Herr, bleibe bei uns Herr,
Denn sonst sind wir allein auf der Fahrt durch das Meer, O bleibe bei uns, Herr!

Di indo diterjemahkan jadi:

Tuhan tolonglah, Tuhan tolonglah.
Tanpa Dikau semua binasa kelak, oh Tuhan tolonglah.

Dan menyadari kalo conjugated verb yang dipake tuh ‘bleibe’ instead of ‘bleiben’ (PS: bleiben != tolong. Jangan di translate directly). That means kita refer ke Tuhan sebagai ‘du’ (=kamu) instead of ‘Sie’ (=Anda). Buat gue, ini menunjukkan hubungan yang dekat. Antara kita dan Dia.

Kemaren di doa pengantar firman PU Gabungan 3, bang Julius (sori kalo salah nulis) juga bilang “terimakasih kalau kami boleh memanggilmu, penguasa alam semesta, Bapa.”

It was wonderful. The feeling that I know He’s always close. That the Mighty God Himself loves me as a Father.

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There are two teachers I admire and respect so much in my 6 years of education before uni. One of them is shorter and balder, where the other one is taller with moustache. Both of them happened to teach physics, and they taught something which is not written in the textbook: honesty.

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I remember some of his stories which at the end, he would warn us the importance of being honest. He has the sharpest eyes. I never dare to intentionally cheat in his quizzes. It was kinda shocking when I think about it, cos in primary school I even cheat with my friends during final exam -.-”.

He was also the one who always say: ‘physics is beautiful’. Imagine saying it to 12-year-old girls at their very first physics class. It was confusing, cos who on earth will say those awful formulas ‘beautiful’? He also always tried to relate everything he taught to human’s daily life. And slowly, I began to understand why is it beautiful. I had the most neat notes in the class for his subject, I guess, and it continues until now.

Those three years were the most rebel times in my life. You know puberty and all stuffs, but I managed to did well and did not get into any serious trouble. I remember one of my friends did not make it (she got expelled from the school because of cheating). And I do thankful to have someone warned me at the first place.

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He always appeared ‘happy-go-lucky’ and very relaxed. He smoked heavily.

He has this ‘policy’ which I’ll never forget.

Everybody knows that high school is hard. In my school it might not be that hard socially, but it is sure hard academically. Especially at quizzes and exams (though it much better than now). Every several weeks, there will be a quiz. The teacher would mark each one of them and return to the students. And usually, there are people who were not satisfied with their grades. For non-science subjects, there were even more people who would step to the front of the class and ask the teacher to consider to rise their grades. For sciences, people only ask if the teacher make some mistakes and mark their grades too low.

I remember there were this one time when he said:

“If I made mistakes in marking and lower your grade, just come, show it to me and I will give you the grade you deserve. If I made mistakes and I raise your grade, come and show it to me. I won’t reduce your grades. It will be the marks for your honesty.”

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Their names are Mr. Bambang & Mr. Heru.

And I believe I won’t be exactly who I am today if it was not because of them.